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Sage Publishing: Play and the Learning Environment

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Play is an important vehicle for developing self-regulation as well as promoting language, cognition, and social competence. This chapter discusses the definition of the physical environment and play, the defining characteristics of...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Review of Dramatic Elements: Practice 4 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You will be able to recognize the functions of monologue, soliloquy, and dramatic irony in a play.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Review of Dramatic Elements: Practice 4 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Recognize the functions of monologue, soliloquy, and dramatic irony in a play.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Dramatic Irony (English I Reading)

For Students 9th
Recognize dramatic irony and explain how it functions in a play.
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PBS

Pbs: Play Pretend Post Office (Make a Post Office Lesson Plan)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Instructions for creating a make-believe post office.
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Joy, Or, New Dramatical Charades by Annemina De Younge

For Students 4th - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Joy, or, New Dramatical Charades for Home Performance by Annemina de Younge (c1875), a collection of short plays to use for charades.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Determining Dramatic Irony

For Students 9th Standards
Read lines 1 - 175 of Act V, scene 3 from Romeo and Juliet together to determine how dramatic irony is used to develop the tragic tone of this play?
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National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts: Imagine! Introducing Your Child to the Arts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Creative play with a purpose! Information, from the National Endowment for the Arts, to encourage and guide your children in understanding and appreciating the arts. Learn how to engage them in arts of all sorts: writing, dance, music,...
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: Trifles by Susan Glaspell

For Students 9th - 10th
Come and explore "Trifles" A Play in One Act by Susan Glaspell at this site from the University of Virginia. This online version of the play is maintained at the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library.
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Georgetown University

Georgetown University: Susan Glaspell

For Students 9th - 10th
Have you ever read any of Susan Glaspell's work? This site offers a range of material on the work "Trifles." The materials range from classroom issues and strategies, major themes, historical perspectives, and the personal issues that...
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Essays on the Craft of Dramatic Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site, by the author of a workbook on the craft of writing, is filled with essays about many elements of dramatic writing, from the principles of storytelling, to plot development, to character development. There are also numerous...
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Northern Virginia Community College

Introduction to Theatre Six Parts of a Play Character

For Students 9th - 10th
This site tells of Aristotle's six parts of a play. It goes into detail on the Character and the different terms that describe different character types.
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Creative Drama & Theatre Education Resource Site

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains a large amount of information on creative drama including classroom ideas, theater games, plays for performance, and more.
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TES Global

Tes: Othello by William Shakespeare: Worksheet Pack

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a complete guide to teaching Othello including a short synopsis of each scene followed by questions, an essay assignment on themes, a dramatic function assignment, a glossary of literary terms...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Drama: Characteristics of a Drama

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the characteristics of a drama including the four elements of a play: characters, dialogue, action, and gesture. It features a presentation of characterisics of drama, a Wikipedia article "Drama," and Quizlet:...
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: A View From the Bridge

For Students 9th - 10th
Great insight into Arthur Miller's play "A View from the Bridge". Intended for students preparing to take the British GCSE test, this site is beneficial to all students studying Miller and the play. With links to context, plot,...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: Contemporary Drama

For Students 9th - 10th
This introduction to contemporary drama focuses on the elements or characteristics of drama and the theme of the American Dream. It features the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, which is set in the 1950s.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: "Macbeth"

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough review of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" made specifically for students preparing to take the GCSE test. Beneficial for all students, however, studying Shakespeare or the play. With links to context, plot, characters, dramatic...
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Other

Project Wild: Fishing Fun [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
Five pages of information, activities, and songs to teach students about fish and fishing. Lesson ideas include dramatic play, art projects, music and movement, cross-curricular connections, and home connections. PDF. Requires Adobe Reader.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: An Introduction to Kabuki Theater

For Students 9th - 10th
Kabuki was one of the three most popular dramatic forms of Japan, the other two being Noh drama and puppet theater (bunraku). Singers and an orchestra of drums, flutes, wooden clappers, and samisen (a stringed instrument similar to the...
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Columbia University

Columbia University: Asia for Educators: Timeline of Chinese Inventions

For Students 9th - 10th
This printable timeline details the ancient inventions that dramatically changed Chinese society and the world. Topics include early books, printing techniques, tea, silk, gunpowder, playing cards and paper.
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Arizona State University

Arts Work: Theater Criticism

For Students 9th - 10th
A solid approach to the basics of viewing and evaluating a dramatic experience, including theater, film, and television. Covers description, analysis, interpretation, and evaluation in the context of theater.
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Theater: "Mithing Tooth" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In "Mithing Tooth", students will participate in a poem in two voices. Adapted from Kenn Nesbitt's The Aliens Have Landed at Our School!'s poem, students will dramatize a poem about a child who is missing a tooth and gets upsets when his...
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "Don't Pinch!" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In "Don't Pinch!", students will participate in a poem in three voices. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in his My Dog Ate My Homework! poetry collection, students will dramatize a poem about a child who discovers why his friends...

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